Question

I try to render an mp4 file I added to my android ressources in res/raw like so:

public class Main extends RoboActivity
{
    @InjectView(R.id.introVideo)
    private VideoView introVideo;

    private MediaPlayer player;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
        getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
                WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        player = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.intro_video2);
        SurfaceHolder holder = introVideo.getHolder();
        player.setDisplay(holder);
        player.start();

        player.setOnCompletionListener(new OnCompletionListener() {
            public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp)
            {
                startActivity(new Intent(Main.this, Story.class));
                releasePlayer();
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPause()
    {
        super.onPause();
        releasePlayer();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDestroy()
    {
        super.onDestroy();
        releasePlayer();
    }

    private void releasePlayer()
    {
        if (player != null)
        {
            player.release();
        }
    }
}

but all I experience is the sound of the video, the screen keeps blank on my Samsung GalaxyTab. The source file is an mp4 file (H.264 AVC, 960×640, 30fps) and can be played perfectly fine with Quicktime and VLC.

I tried to downscale and resize the original video with Handbrake, down to 480×320 and 25fps, I tried several settings in handbrake, everything without success.

Is there anything obviously wrong with my code or is it the video format or something else – what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Thomas.

Answer 1

I couldn’t get the above way to work, but I found that it worked when I solely used the provided functionality of Android’s VideoView like this:

...
String videoUri = "android.resource://my.package.path/raw/intro_video";
introVideo.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(videoUri));
introVideo.start();
...